Mallarme\u27s Cigar-Sonnet: Part 1

Toute l\u27ame resumee Quand lente nous l\u27expirons Dans plusieurs ronds de fumee Abolis en autres rond

Trandformations of a Text (A Literary Puzzle)

This mysterious document, entitled Text B, was found among the literary remains of a famous author. It should not be confused with Minoan B, which represents an entirely different rubric

Cyclotron line signatures of thermal and magnetic mountains from accreting neutron stars

Cyclotron resonance scattering features (CRSFs) in the X-ray spectrum of an accreting neutron star are modified differently by accretion mounds sustained by magnetic and thermocompositional gradients. It is shown that one can discriminate, in principle, between mounds of different physical origins by studying how the line energy, width, and depth of a CRSF depend on the orientation of the neutron star, accreted mass, surface temperature distribution, and equation of state. CRSF signatures including gravitational light bending are computed for both phase-resolved and phase-averaged spectra on the basis of self-consistent Grad-Shafranov mound equilibria satisfying a global flux-freezing constraint. The prospects of multimessenger X-ray and gravitational-wave observations with future instruments are canvassed briefly.Comment: 17 pages, 12 figures, accepted for publication in MNRA

The Mallarme Cryptopuzzles

The French poet and essayist Stephane Mallarme (1842-1989) had a varied career as a writer and pedagogue. Employed as a teacher of English in the French school system, he produced, in addition to his literary output, a variety of didactic works such as The Erglish Words, The English Themes, The Ancient Gods. etc.. which may have been used to complement his classroom activities

Mallarme, Word-Painter of Comets

Question: What is more fascinating than a giant comet? Answer: the image of such a comet, when extracted from a matrix puzzle wherein it was not known to exist

A La Merci Des Bad Farceurs

Editor\u27s Note: THis is a promised sequel to The Mallarme Cryptopuzzles published in the August 1993 Word Ways